1999 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Study on Informed Consent
Project/Area Number |
10610035
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
倫理学
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Research Institution | Hiroshima Prefectural College of Health and Welfare |
Principal Investigator |
OKAMOTO Tamayo Hiroshima Prefectural College of Health and Welfare, Dept. of Occupational Therapy, Professor, 作業療法学科, 教授 (60280202)
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Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 1999
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Keywords | informed consent / the legal doctrine / ethical idea / health-care professionals / clients / clinical / research medicine / medical harm / accountability |
Research Abstract |
In this report of my past two years' work on informed consent in Japan, you can find papers and manuscripts under the following five topics. (1) In my attempt to establish a theoretical framework of ICI maintain that IC has to be supplemented by the concept of accountability. I also refer to Jay Katz's clear distinction between the legal doctrine of IC and the ethical idea of IC which calls for sincere dialogue between healthcare professionals and their clients. In view of Dewey's possible contribution to the idea of IC as a democratic concept, I discussed his lectures in Japan in 1919 and the Taisho Democracy proponents' conception of democracy. (2) With regard to the clinical relationship, I discuss IC from my own recent experience of cancer surgery and maintain that despite the ongoing superficial application of the legal doctrine of IC, that ethically suspectable practice of deception and manupulation is still under way. (3) Allied health professionals need to get an IC especially when disclosure of information and risk factors in proposed procedures are at issue. They should incorporate IC both in law and ethics into their codes of ethics. (4) Medical harm is enormous in nature and size in medicine's experimental approach employed not from the objectives of research and medical care but from economic and/or military purposes. The return to medicine's principles of beneficence and non-maleficence is sorely needed. (5) IC has to be implemented in all the fields of bioethics. Here, however, only the one dealing with human cloning was published.
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Research Products
(12 results)